Interesting Fact: The high elevated tracks at Smith street has a hidden tunnel. A tunnel in a elevated line?, as strange as it sounds yes. It’s right in between the tracks once you pass Smith street heading to Carroll street. I don’t know how long is that tunnel nor if it heads anywhere.
@@dwdwone I thought for a moment too but it does not go anywhere specific. It only holds about 3 lengths of Subway cars. I always wanted to look underneath that bridge to see if I can spot a hump that would indicate it but since I’m not living in NY anymore, I can’t spot it. Not even Google maps can help me because it’s taken from above.
Technically, the segment from Bergen Street to church Acenue is not the Culver line, but is the IND Smith Street line. The culver line is the portion from the portal south of Church Avenue to Coney Island , which orginally was part of the BMT.
This is correct. Work started on the connecting structure in the 1940's but WWII delayed its completion until 1954. The D train ran on the Culver Line until November 1967 then the F as it does today.
"Occasionally F trains are rerouted and pass through the lower level, but the platform is barely visible. There's no lighting." It's a concrete skeleton! Many times, I've worked the F and passed Bergen Lower. It's nothing but concrete!
Wow so many memories. Carroll Street was my station. I lived in Carroll Gardens which is a beautiful part of Brooklyn. At the Smith and 9th Street Station exactly where you were standing there were people standing there and saw the planes hit the two towers on 9/11.
Yeah, and the debris cloud blew your way for a good couple of hours before the wind shifted in the early afternoon, and started blowing it all north instead. I remember.
According to Roger Arcara, the elevated line was built because the ground underneath the Gawanis Canal would not have allowed construction of a subway station.
Finally someone noticed that F trains service is very erratic, when I used to take the A at Jay street you would see like 6 F trains to coney come like 3 minutes apart. It’s crazy no other train comes back to back like that expect for the 7.
A little info in the Gowanus Canal: It is polluted because of the industry that was built along it. It was a favorite site of chemical and heavy industrial plants decades ago, that used barges to ship product and raw materials. It is still a Superfund site, but one section has already been cleaned.
DJ:I really enjoy all your work.Thxs so much.Culver 1&2 i the best yet.Wish the captions stayed on a wee bit longer.I learned a lot about the Culver,thxs to you.Really appreciate your continued efforts.Wish you noted station names and selfie without reflection in glass.All the best!Bob PS Surprised that Culver did not have more patronage.
Technically, the portion from Bergen Street to Church Avenue is not the Culver line, but the IND Smith Street line. The Culver line starts at the tunnel portal south of Church Avenue.
DJ,I know it's 7 years later but to answer a couple of your questions... The reason the G train with the vomit continued to Church Ave was of something you pointed out at 4th Ave Ninth Street with the switches... Once you enter the station on 1trk, you are now committed to it through to Church Ave. Also the reason the next train crawled in at Church Ave was because the switch at the south end was in the reverse position and the signal sequence was protecting the switch by piecemealing, if you will, the line up into the station.
Trying to figure out the F express implentation where rush hour trains will go, my best guess is the trains will be labelled as a Diamond F since it's gonna be like the 6 and 7 express. might start from Kings Highway as a terminus since that track goes right to the yard. It can either end at Smith-9th street or Bergen St, but Bergen might not be with reopening the lower level if just one platform of the two with be open in service during rush hours at the respective times, unless it'll be easy for the MTA to maintain the platforms then maybe the express trains should just switch at Smith since that's where a track switch is.
Chad M It’s being implemented. AM rush for now... Kings Highway to Jay St express that goes local from Jay St. No Bergen St. That remains local only. No additional symbol as it is not yet being implemented on the PM rush toward Coney. Right now, some occasional trains do end up being diverted to the express track during PM rush toward CI, but it creates lots of confusion as it’s only announced at Jay St.
Awesome vid.....I don't believe there is a small train yard at Church tho' for the G? My stop is Ditmas, and I usually just see G trains waiting on the middle track right past it to come back towards Church and begin their route.
I remember I transferes from the R train to 9th street and waitingfor him to come on the F train. I got bored and took a G train to smith 9th street to explore. Pretty cool station, but the town doesn’t look well developed below it. Anyway, There is like a stairway of escalators to get up. But the veiew is beautiful on top!
This ain't the Culver line I recall from the mid 1960's when I'd go "train ridin"" as a Brooklyn teen. I boarded the Culver Line at the 9th Ave West End station. The B train ran underground there and the Culver station was one level below. It then ran elevated to Ditmas Ave. where I could change to the F train. It ran for four or five stops only. Back and forth. Over the Bocce ball courts on Church Ave. The cars were the very old ones where the conductor opened doors from a panel in mid-car. It had porcelain fixtures, bare light bulbs and wicker seat covers. I loved riding the elevated trains all day and tokens cost fifteen cents
The Smith-9th station is elevated because of the ships that would be in the canal AND it made it easier for the trains to make the hill climb up to Prospect Park. Entering the tunnel between 4th and 5th avenues eliminated the climb from a tunnel under the Gowanus Canal up to 4th Avenue. The rest of climb was a little easier going up to 7th Avenue and eventually Prospect Park West and the 15th Street station. The earlier R series cars had only one 190HP motor per car which weighed in between 84,000 and 84,500 pounds. Not exactly a great weight to HP ratio.
This was a good video, but to be honest, every time a G Train passed, I paid extremely close attention to the conductor in case the conductor was my dad (I think he was the conductor on the G Train leaving 15th Street, he makes good announcements but unfortunately no one can hear him).
Strange that there isn't an elevator at Smith 9th street. There IS an elevator at at least one of the subway stations up in Harlem around 125th Ave, which is the DEEPEST subway station in the city, and those were built earlier. One of these days there might be a civil liberties lawsuit against the city and they will have to retrofit the station with an elevator for wheel chair access. (Or do they have a waver on some historical clause?) I remember when the "G" (then "GG") used to terminate at Smith 9th street. They then turned it around using the express tracks at 4th Ave. Between 7th ave and Church Ave the express tracks take a direct route along the hypotenuse of a triangle while the local tracks divert to a longer path for the next two stops. I think the idea when this IND line was designed in the 30's was to have the G (GG) line run local to Church Ave and the D (F) run express to Manhattan. As you surmised, this pattern wasn't liked by the public, because frequent train changes would be required, and the line didn't run often enough. They would have had to have the express trains wait for the locals, making express service useless. After the BMT Culver El was recaptured the GG only ran as far as Smith 9th Street. A train taken out of service because someone barfed in it? That's new. I was once on a Manhattan bound F and got into an empty car. Turned out it had one passenger on board with 'super fund' toxic levels of BO. They didn't remove him to fumigate the train! The connection to Staten Island was supposed to go over the Verrazano bridge, but the plans for adding tracks to the bridge were nixed by by Robert Moses. There were thoughts about building that bridge since the 30's, but it got delayed by the depression and the usual NYC politics and BS until the 60's. Some roadwork for the connection was actually done in Staten Island, IIRC. BTW longer tunnels than one from Manhattan to Staten Island have been built elsewhere, it COULD be done today if the money could be found. But where would it connect in Manhattan? The 6th Ave, "Culver" was always the stepchild of the IND. It was the 8th Ave "A" line that always had better service and got the new rolling stock first. Of course, when I lived in Brooklyn, it was near the Ave X station of the Culver.
Kenneth Scharf First off, the NYC subway is operated by the MTA, not NYC. The MTA is a state-run agency. Second, they are, unfortunately, exempt from ADA compliancy as the stations were designed LONG ago. Adding elevators to go up an existing structure is much more difficult than adding one to go down from ground level.
The Staten Island tunnel was cancelled by Mayor Hyland who was fired as a young man and he carried his hate relation to office and had the tunnel cancelled. He then planned to build a City Owned subway that became the Independent.
That is true. The story is told that Hylan was fired as an engineer by the BRT when the elevated lines were still running steam engines. When he became mayor he promised that the city would never spend money on any privately run subway again. That was the beginning of the IND which was completed in 1932 after he left office. Some BMT construction was also delayed until after he left office such as the completion of the Canarsie Line in Brooklyn and the Nassau Street Line in lower Manhattan.
I think you said it but I was reading a bit fast but why does the (G) train only have 4 cars. Why can't they add more, is it because the route is a bit short, not as short are the shuttle from 42 st and Franklyn but kind of like the Rockaway. I mean, idk, since you know about trains, a bit more than I do, perhaps you have an answer. Now, anyone wants to answer why the (G) train has 4 cars???
Who ever is reading this in 2020: The center the tracks should be used to accommodate the terminal of the G trains, to distinct and prohibit delays from the F train, don’t you think?
That can’t work without having the G go express from Smith-9th Street. Perhaps we can just have some express trains on the line, but without new construction or impacting other popular services, this isn’t possible.
Very informative, with much fascinating information and nice video footage - but is there anything you can do to correct the significant phase distortion in the audio? Makes it very difficult to listen to. Sounds like two mono channels were mixed with phase error between them. Just asking, as most of your other videos have such genuinely clear sound...
RedArrow73 Budget cuts back in 2010. There aren't enough trains for the (G) to run to Forest Hills-71 anyway. And if there was, then it would create more traffic along the Queens Blvd line
The G was cut back to Court Square when they added the V train back in 2001. Until 2010 they agreed to keep the G running to Forest Hills late nights and weekends when the V was not running, but due to track work and other construction, they repeatedly had to terminate it at Court Square when it was supposed to continue to Forest Hills, so they just had it terminate at Court Square all the time. However, it was permanently extended to Church Avenue in Brooklyn around the same time. IMO, having the G terminate at Court Square with the M (formerly V) running to Forest Hills is better because it gives customers at local stations a second option when going to Manhattan instead of only having the R train. Also, with the M running 480 foot trains instead of 300 foot trains, it has more capacity, which is definitely needed on Queens Boulevard. Few people from express stations rode the G from Forest Hills anyways as they'd just take the E and transfer at Court Square. Many people who took the G from the local stations were going to Manhattan and just transferred to the E or F, and the M gives those people a one seat ride and reduces crowding on the E and F.
The G was cut back when the V train (now the orange M) was introduced at the same time as the F was rerouted through 63rd St. bypassing Queens Plaza. There isn't enough track capacity to run 3 local services (the R is the other one) so the G was cut back to Court Sq. where there is a free transfer to the E/M/7 lines.
The stations coming out of the tunnel coney Island bound are very high up the walk up n down to the R train is a something. I remember when there were no elevators in subways. Btw my wigga rapping name is G TRAIN PAIN.. 💚💚💚💚
Very late to the party here, but for anyone wondering about the lack of an elevator at Smith - 9th st; This is what Wikipedia had to say. "Residents lobbied for an elevator in the station during the renovation, but a spokesman for the MTA said that installation of an elevator was too costly and prohibitive, and that such an elevator would have damaged the station's structural integrity." The article goes into some detail about the structural integrity of the entire viaduct being in pretty serious jeopardy pre-renovation, and can be found here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith-Ninth_Streets_station
scharkalvin No... it was always green as it’s officially part of the Crosstown G line until Church Ave. The Culver line really only starts from Church Ave on to West 8th.
Ridership issues and railcar shortage (keep in mind that since the 63rd Street connection opened in 2001, other lines have had increases or other changes in service (some of which are larger than the G) so those line got the extra cars first).
As for Independent Subway System (IND) tiling pattern, I believe i read somewhere that an express station would have a certain color and that the succeeding local stations would have that same color until the color changed at the next express station. Is this correct?
F service is indeed erratic, at any hour. It used to drive me crazy. Especially when stuck in stations where ventilation is a problem, or where cleanliness or security (lack of it, of course) is a problem. And ... no elevator at Smith-9th Street? MORONS!!
Neon2110 It’s being implemented during AM rush hours toward Manhattan. Only during weekdays, the train will go express from Kings Highway to 18th Ave, Church Ave, 7th Ave and Jay St, then local as usual. The PM CI-bound service may be implemented in the future as well.
Interesting Fact: The high elevated tracks at Smith street has a hidden tunnel. A tunnel in a elevated line?, as strange as it sounds yes. It’s right in between the tracks once you pass Smith street heading to Carroll street.
I don’t know how long is that tunnel nor if it heads anywhere.
I always thought it was ab express track.
@@dwdwone
I thought for a moment too but it does not go anywhere specific. It only holds about 3 lengths of Subway cars.
I always wanted to look underneath that bridge to see if I can spot a hump that would indicate it but since I’m not living in NY anymore, I can’t spot it. Not even Google maps can help me because it’s taken from above.
Technically, the segment from Bergen Street to church Acenue is not the Culver line, but is the IND Smith Street line. The culver line is the portion from the portal south of Church Avenue to Coney Island , which orginally was part of the BMT.
This is correct. Work started on the connecting structure in the 1940's but WWII delayed its completion until 1954. The D train ran on the Culver Line until November 1967 then the F as it does today.
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@@BMTEnjoyer160 I'm retired from the TA. I make a lot of sense.
Dude, these videos are awesome. I'm only sad that I'm discovering them now
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"Occasionally F trains are rerouted and pass through the lower level, but the platform is barely visible. There's no lighting." It's a concrete skeleton! Many times, I've worked the F and passed Bergen Lower. It's nothing but concrete!
ONE MORE THING: Bergen Lower can also be used to turn A C & F trains from Jay St.
Wow so many memories. Carroll Street was my station. I lived in Carroll Gardens which is a beautiful part of Brooklyn. At the Smith and 9th Street Station exactly where you were standing there were people standing there and saw the planes hit the two towers on 9/11.
Yeah, and the debris cloud blew your way for a good couple of hours before the wind shifted in the early afternoon, and started blowing it all north instead. I remember.
According to Roger Arcara, the elevated line was built because the ground underneath the Gawanis Canal would not have allowed construction of a subway station.
Finally someone noticed that F trains service is very erratic, when I used to take the A at Jay street you would see like 6 F trains to coney come like 3 minutes apart. It’s crazy no other train comes back to back like that expect for the 7.
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Yeah it does that till the day your actually waiting for it
A little info in the Gowanus Canal: It is polluted because of the industry that was built along it. It was a favorite site of chemical and heavy industrial plants decades ago, that used barges to ship product and raw materials. It is still a Superfund site, but one section has already been cleaned.
The Gowanus was so polluted with chemicals and garbage in mid 1960's that you could walk across it and not get your feet wet, just like Jesus did.
I never knew that the Smith 9th st station was the highest in the world. I use it everyday
DJ:I really enjoy all your work.Thxs so much.Culver 1&2 i the best yet.Wish the captions stayed on a wee bit longer.I learned a lot about the Culver,thxs to you.Really appreciate your continued efforts.Wish you noted station names and selfie without reflection in glass.All the best!Bob PS Surprised that Culver did not have more patronage.
Technically, the portion from Bergen Street to Church Avenue is not the Culver line, but the IND Smith Street line. The Culver line starts at the tunnel portal south of Church Avenue.
Great Video, and I love the printed information.
Some weekday F trains use church ave to relay and run express from Smith 9th. Some late f trains run express from Jay St stopping at 7th and church.
A Most enjoyable and educational video, superbly done with a lot of Class, DJ Hammers! Looking forward to the next segment of the Culver Line! :o)
DJ,I know it's 7 years later but to answer a couple of your questions...
The reason the G train with the vomit continued to Church Ave was of something you pointed out at 4th Ave Ninth Street with the switches...
Once you enter the station on 1trk, you are now committed to it through to Church Ave.
Also the reason the next train crawled in at Church Ave was because the switch at the south end was in the reverse position and the signal sequence was protecting the switch by piecemealing, if you will, the line up into the station.
Trying to figure out the F express implentation where rush hour trains will go, my best guess is the trains will be labelled as a Diamond F since it's gonna be like the 6 and 7 express. might start from Kings Highway as a terminus since that track goes right to the yard. It can either end at Smith-9th street or Bergen St, but Bergen might not be with reopening the lower level if just one platform of the two with be open in service during rush hours at the respective times, unless it'll be easy for the MTA to maintain the platforms then maybe the express trains should just switch at Smith since that's where a track switch is.
Chad M It’s being implemented. AM rush for now... Kings Highway to Jay St express that goes local from Jay St. No Bergen St. That remains local only. No additional symbol as it is not yet being implemented on the PM rush toward Coney. Right now, some occasional trains do end up being diverted to the express track during PM rush toward CI, but it creates lots of confusion as it’s only announced at Jay St.
Very well made video,thanks for the work of editing it.
Awesome vid.....I don't believe there is a small train yard at Church tho' for the G? My stop is Ditmas, and I usually just see G trains waiting on the middle track right past it to come back towards Church and begin their route.
I've ridden the F train from Manhattan to Carroll St station.. Unique opetation in this segment .
This was some pretty neat footage of the G train with the sick passenger
Very informative. Thanks. Looking forward to your other videos.
I remember I transferes from the R train to 9th street and waitingfor him to come on the F train. I got bored and took a G train to smith 9th street to explore. Pretty cool station, but the town doesn’t look well developed below it. Anyway, There is like a stairway of escalators to get up. But the veiew is beautiful on top!
Does the recently re-introduced F express use those disused express tracks you were talking about?
Yes
Great educational video, Thanks
This ain't the Culver line I recall from the mid 1960's when I'd go "train ridin"" as a Brooklyn teen. I boarded the Culver Line at the 9th Ave West End station. The B train ran underground there and the Culver station was one level below. It then ran elevated to Ditmas Ave. where I could change to the F train. It ran for four or five stops only. Back and forth. Over the Bocce ball courts on Church Ave. The cars were the very old ones where the conductor opened doors from a panel in mid-car. It had porcelain fixtures, bare light bulbs and wicker seat covers. I loved riding the elevated trains all day and tokens cost fifteen cents
The Smith-9th station is elevated because of the ships that would be in the canal AND it made it easier for the trains to make the hill climb up to Prospect Park. Entering the tunnel between 4th and 5th avenues eliminated the climb from a tunnel under the Gowanus Canal up to 4th Avenue. The rest of climb was a little easier going up to 7th Avenue and eventually Prospect Park West and the 15th Street station. The earlier R series cars had only one 190HP motor per car which weighed in between 84,000 and 84,500 pounds. Not exactly a great weight to HP ratio.
do more of this! i like it. ☺ i praise your work dj!
I LOVE these videos man. Keep this up!!
This was a good video, but to be honest, every time a G Train passed, I paid extremely close attention to the conductor in case the conductor was my dad (I think he was the conductor on the G Train leaving 15th Street, he makes good announcements but unfortunately no one can hear him).
R32 G Crosstown Train There’s a conductor who always announces “Brrrrrrrroadway!” on the G and gets smiles every time.
The elevated lines need to look like this elevated line in the future
Strange that there isn't an elevator at Smith 9th street. There IS an elevator at at least one of the subway stations up in Harlem around 125th Ave, which is the DEEPEST subway station in the city, and those were built earlier. One of these days there might be a civil liberties lawsuit against the city and they will have to retrofit the station with an elevator for wheel chair access. (Or do they have a waver on some historical clause?)
I remember when the "G" (then "GG") used to terminate at Smith 9th street. They then turned it around using the express tracks at 4th Ave.
Between 7th ave and Church Ave the express tracks take a direct route along the hypotenuse of a triangle while the local tracks divert to a longer path for the next two stops.
I think the idea when this IND line was designed in the 30's was to have the G (GG) line run local to Church Ave and the D (F) run express to Manhattan. As you surmised, this pattern wasn't liked by the public, because frequent train changes would be required, and the line didn't run often enough. They would have had to have the express trains wait for the locals, making express service useless. After the BMT Culver El was recaptured the GG only ran as far as Smith 9th Street.
A train taken out of service because someone barfed in it? That's new. I was once on a Manhattan bound F and got into an empty car. Turned out it had one passenger on board with 'super fund' toxic levels of BO. They didn't remove him to fumigate the train!
The connection to Staten Island was supposed to go over the Verrazano bridge, but the plans for adding tracks to the bridge were nixed by by Robert Moses. There were thoughts about building that bridge since the 30's, but it got delayed by the depression and the usual NYC politics and BS until the 60's. Some roadwork for the connection was actually done in Staten Island, IIRC. BTW longer tunnels than one from Manhattan to Staten Island have been built elsewhere, it COULD be done today if the money could be found. But where would it connect in Manhattan?
The 6th Ave, "Culver" was always the stepchild of the IND. It was the 8th Ave "A" line that always had better service and got the new rolling stock first. Of course, when I lived in Brooklyn, it was near the Ave X station of the Culver.
Kenneth Scharf First off, the NYC subway is operated by the MTA, not NYC. The MTA is a state-run agency.
Second, they are, unfortunately, exempt from ADA compliancy as the stations were designed LONG ago. Adding elevators to go up an existing structure is much more difficult than adding one to go down from ground level.
Ah the good old culver line
The Staten Island tunnel was cancelled by Mayor Hyland who was fired as a young man and he carried his hate relation to office and had the tunnel cancelled. He then planned to build a City Owned subway that became the Independent.
That is true. The story is told that Hylan was fired as an engineer by the BRT when the elevated lines were still running steam engines. When he became mayor he promised that the city would never spend money on any privately run subway again. That was the beginning of the IND which was completed in 1932 after he left office. Some BMT construction was also delayed until after he left office such as the completion of the Canarsie Line in Brooklyn and the Nassau Street Line in lower Manhattan.
I gotta say the lower level is scary as hell
@OZZIAH PHILLIPS ELLIS there are videos online of people exploring the lower level.
LOL at Caroll St when the R68 and R160 enter and leave the signs are paired.
I think you said it but I was reading a bit fast but why does the (G) train only have 4 cars. Why can't they add more, is it because the route is a bit short, not as short are the shuttle from 42 st and Franklyn but kind of like the Rockaway. I mean, idk, since you know about trains, a bit more than I do, perhaps you have an answer. Now, anyone wants to answer why the (G) train has 4 cars???
Justincat Gato low ridership and lack of train carriages available
Who ever is reading this in 2020: The center the tracks should be used to accommodate the terminal of the G trains, to distinct and prohibit delays from the F train, don’t you think?
That can’t work without having the G go express from Smith-9th Street. Perhaps we can just have some express trains on the line, but without new construction or impacting other popular services, this isn’t possible.
Very informative, with much fascinating information and nice video footage - but is there anything you can do to correct the significant phase distortion in the audio? Makes it very difficult to listen to. Sounds like two mono channels were mixed with phase error between them. Just asking, as most of your other videos have such genuinely clear sound...
So why on Earth was the G cut back from Queens Plaza at the other end?
RedArrow73 Budget cuts back in 2010. There aren't enough trains for the (G) to run to Forest Hills-71 anyway. And if there was, then it would create more traffic along the Queens Blvd line
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The G was cut back to Court Square when they added the V train back in 2001. Until 2010 they agreed to keep the G running to Forest Hills late nights and weekends when the V was not running, but due to track work and other construction, they repeatedly had to terminate it at Court Square when it was supposed to continue to Forest Hills, so they just had it terminate at Court Square all the time. However, it was permanently extended to Church Avenue in Brooklyn around the same time.
IMO, having the G terminate at Court Square with the M (formerly V) running to Forest Hills is better because it gives customers at local stations a second option when going to Manhattan instead of only having the R train. Also, with the M running 480 foot trains instead of 300 foot trains, it has more capacity, which is definitely needed on Queens Boulevard. Few people from express stations rode the G from Forest Hills anyways as they'd just take the E and transfer at Court Square. Many people who took the G from the local stations were going to Manhattan and just transferred to the E or F, and the M gives those people a one seat ride and reduces crowding on the E and F.
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The G was cut back when the V train (now the orange M) was introduced at the same time as the F was rerouted through 63rd St. bypassing Queens Plaza. There isn't enough track capacity to run 3 local services (the R is the other one) so the G was cut back to Court Sq. where there is a free transfer to the E/M/7 lines.
very interesting. thank u
What's with the dislikes DJ hammers is very Smart he tell information to people
The stations coming out of the tunnel coney Island bound are very high up the walk up n down to the R train is a something. I remember when there were no elevators in subways. Btw my wigga rapping name is G TRAIN PAIN.. 💚💚💚💚
Very late to the party here, but for anyone wondering about the lack of an elevator at Smith - 9th st; This is what Wikipedia had to say.
"Residents lobbied for an elevator in the station during the renovation, but a spokesman for the MTA said that installation of an elevator was too costly and prohibitive, and that such an elevator would have damaged the station's structural integrity."
The article goes into some detail about the structural integrity of the entire viaduct being in pretty serious jeopardy pre-renovation, and can be found here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith-Ninth_Streets_station
Nice video!!!!!!!!! Can you make a video of Long island railroad?
Tile on the Bergen street station used to be orange IIRC.
scharkalvin No... it was always green as it’s officially part of the Crosstown G line until Church Ave. The Culver line really only starts from Church Ave on to West 8th.
Interesting. I wonder why at Smith/9th St they didn't just building a lifting bridge over the canal like there is at Broadway Bridge instead...
I wish the MTA would open the lower level of Bergen street for the Culver express.
SpaZz it actually got abandoned
They park trains there......
The only way that would happen if customers start a petition
sup B Even then, they don’t have $75 million the reconstruction would require.
@@TheRailLeaguer during rush hours they can let the F run Express to jay st & let the G train make the local stops
Very very interesting sir.
Why does the G train have 4-cars set while the F train has 8-cars?
Ridership issues and railcar shortage (keep in mind that since the 63rd Street connection opened in 2001, other lines have had increases or other changes in service (some of which are larger than the G) so those line got the extra cars first).
As for Independent Subway System (IND) tiling pattern, I believe i read somewhere that an express station would have a certain color and that the succeeding local stations would have that same color until the color changed at the next express station. Is this correct?
That's what he said.
23:13 what is the noise the train makes lol I've noticed that the r68s make those noises
That is the sound of the HVAC activating
What was the Lower Level Used for at Bergen Street?
Sharon Watkins it was used for F express trains
What Does BMT and other one stand for?
And IND
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit
OK
King Andrew BMT=All of the letter lines IND=A-G and IRT=All number trains
No. It,s. Bmt/ind. all a-z. Irt all. Numbers. 1-7
I like how he spends nearly half of the video on Church Avenue.
I use to hate when the G train went to 71 I would get plug by a G train every night on my last trip to 71 with the R train
those lights mean there working.at 3:04.
didnt u upload this already
Awesome sauce
Lol Express track 10:50 at 7 ave
Why can't the (G) train terminate at the center express tracks?
Because there is no connection from the local to express
Love the video and the info, but the Bolero? Really?
Honest question: if there was no passengers hw did mta knew that
F service is indeed erratic, at any hour. It used to drive me crazy. Especially when stuck in stations where ventilation is a problem, or where cleanliness or security (lack of it, of course) is a problem.
And ... no elevator at Smith-9th Street? MORONS!!
But good one though
Any chance of F train express?
Neon2110 It’s being implemented during AM rush hours toward Manhattan. Only during weekdays, the train will go express from Kings Highway to 18th Ave, Church Ave, 7th Ave and Jay St, then local as usual. The PM CI-bound service may be implemented in the future as well.
Well this is old.
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Ok {IM NOT BEING JUDGMENTAL OR ACCUSING YOU} those sounds/graphics are horrible